Cheektowaga, NY Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

Section 260-28B governs a resident professional's office in the R District, which requires a special use permit issued by the Board of Appeals after a public hearing under § 260-78. " The same subsection restricts the resident professional to one employee, assistant or associate (§260-28B(2)) and requires the office use to stay clearly incidental and subordinate to the residential use, capped at 15% of the ground floor area of the principal structure (§260-28B(1)). Off-street parking for the office use is required in addition to the driveway or private garage, with the Building Inspector determining the parking location and requiring screening by fencing, vegetation or similar material to protect neighboring properties (§260-28B(3)).

The broader home-based business category defined separately at § 260-28E does not carry its own sign allowance in the code, so the four-square-foot wall sign standard applies specifically to the resident-professional-office use rather than to home-based businesses generally.